Not very long after Theodoric Hertoge, and still to the western and north-western coasts, came Zeachern, Edels, Nuitz, De Witt, and Pelsart, who was wrecked upon Houtman's Albrolhos, or rocks named by Edels, in his ship the Leewin or Lion.

Cape Leewin is called after this vessel.

Pelsart left two convicts on the Australian coast in 1629.

Carpenter was the next navigator, and all these adventurers have indelibly affixed their names to portions of the coast of the land they discovered.

The next, and a greater than these, at least greater in his navigating successes, was Abel Janz Tasman, in 1642.